Flexuous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flexuous \Flex"u*ous\, a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending,
     turning.]
     1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
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     2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions;


        bent in a zigzag manner.
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     3. Wavering; not steady; flickering. --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  curved \curved\ adj.
     1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of
        {straight}.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: {arced, arched, arching, arciform,
           arcuate, bowed}; {falcate, sickle-shaped}; {flexuous};
           {incurvate, incurved}: {recurved, recurvate};
           {semicircular}: {serpentine, snaky}: {sinuate, sinuous,
           wavy}: {sinusoidal}]
  
     Syn: curving.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost
        touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of
        {orthotropous}.
  
     Syn: campylotropous.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flexuous
       adj : having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexuous":
     adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy,
     chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant,
     convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile,
     elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile,
     flexible, flexile, flexuose, formable, formative, giving, hairpin,
     impressible, impressionable, involute, involuted, involutional,
     labyrinthine, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
     malleable, mazy, meandering, meandrous, moldable, plastic, pliable,
     pliant, receptive, responsive, rivose, rivulose, roundabout,
     ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, shapable, sinuate,
     sinuose, sinuous, snaky, springy, staggered, submissive, supple,
     susceptible, torsional, tortile, tortuous, tractable, tractile,
     turning, twisting, twisty, whippy, whorled, willowy, winding,
     wreathlike, wreathy, yielding, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways